EU-Chile association agreement: negotiating directives made public

From left to right: Ms Ekaterina ZAHARIEVA, Bulgarian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr Ivan KORCOK, State Secretary at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

On 22 January, the Council decided to publish the mandate given to the Commission on 13 November 2017 to modernise the existing association agreement with Chile.

This is the first time that the Council has decided to make public the entire mandate for an association agreement covering political and trade aspects. It responds to calls for greater transparency and the need to better communicate the contents and the objectives of the negotiations.